SDGsへの取り組み｜山水荘-YUMORI

Sansuiso’s SDG Initiatives

01 Environmental Initiatives

Guestroom Amenities: All amenities have been removed from our guestrooms and are available for those who need them at the front desk. (All of our amenities are made of biodegradable materials such as mugi, or barley. )
Separation of Trash and Recyclables
Reducing Food Loss
Use of LED Lighting
Tsuchiyu Onsen Binary Plant
Going Paperless

Encouraging “3010”
In large group gatherings, people tend to mingle and drink, largely ignoring the food that is being brought out. The result: quite the amount of food loss, as most of the food remains uneaten and is left behind.
“3010” is a movement to prevent such food loss at large parties. It encourages people to remain seated for the first 30 minutes of the party to enjoy the food and then to again return to their seats 10 minutes before the end of the party to prevent unnecessary food loss.
Food Loss Prevention in our Kitchen
In our private dining restaurant Tori, the remnants of the katsuo and konbu seaweed that are used to create the broth for our ochazuke dish are repurposed rice toppings.
What others might think of food waste that results from cooking, we take it as a challenge to repurpose and use in other dishes to minimize food waste. Many of the ingredients we use to make dashi are dried to make a flavorful rice topping called furikake. Shrimp heads are particularly valuable as flavor components to our sauces.
At our sister hostel, YUMORI, unused bread ends are baked and tossed with butter and sugar to create a sweet snack. These snacks are often served as a sweet bite for those who order coffee and other drinks from their café.

At our breakfast buffet, dishes are replenished in proportion to the amount of guests at the time of serving. Plate sizes and amounts of food served are adjusted throughout the service.
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Separation of Trash and Recyclables
Separation of Trash and Recyclables, Minimizing of Trash Anything that can be put out as recycling is separated from trash. Kitchen waste is put out as trash after being drained of any water.
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Kuradashi for Employee Meals
Part of the food that we serve for our employee meals utilizes Kuradashi---a service where you can purchase food items that have been designated to be thrown out (whether it be due to it expiring soon, or being defective, etc.). By doing this, we can help minimize overall food loss not only in our company but in the area we live, and part of the purchase fee is donated to volunteer funds.
Our Amenities Corner
In order to avoid tossing out amenities that have yet to be used, we’ve gathered all of our amenities in the lounge for our guests to take what they need.
About the Amenities We Provide
In order to reduce CO2 emissions and to minimize plastic usage and waste, we have picked out amenities that are made from recyclable materials like mugi, or wheat.
Utilization of LED Lighting
98% of the lighting at Sansuiso is LED. The lighting at our sister hostel, YUMORI is 100% LED!
Tsuchiyu Onsen Binary Plant
After the Great East Japan Earthquake, Tsuchiyu Onsen looked to rebuild and recover by relying on renewable energy. Being a natural hot springs area, our town was able to utilize the natural geothermal and hydraulic power to build a binary plant.
Shrimp are also cultivated at the binary plant to eat any waste that culminates.

Sansuiso SDGs Initiatives

02 Social Initiatives

Local Items Featured on our Online Store
Workers from Abroad Welcomed
Staff Participation in Local Clean Up Events

YUMORI ONSEN HOSTEL’s Renovations
In order to boost local tourism, we renovated the closed hotel next door to us and opened it as a hostel. Rather than taking down a building and building a new one in its place, we decided to work with an existing building. By doing this, we were able to lower damage to the natural surroundings and reduce building waste.
Online Store
Tsuchiyu Onsen is one of the three famous places where kokeshi originated.
These traditional wooden dolls are crafted by local craftsmen using age old techniques. As these kokeshi dolls and ejiko dolls are quite precious to the culture of Tsuchiyu Onsen, we have been striving to further knowledge of our skilled craftsmen and their unique dolls via our online store.
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Acceptance of Foreign National Workers
Not only do we accept foreign nationals as full time employees, we also accept technical interns from abroad.

01 Environmental Initiatives

Encouraging “3010”

Food Loss Prevention in our Kitchen

Separation of Trash and Recyclables

Kuradashi for Employee Meals

Our Amenities Corner

About the Amenities We Provide

Utilization of LED Lighting

Tsuchiyu Onsen Binary Plant

02 Social Initiatives

YUMORI ONSEN HOSTEL’s Renovations

Online Store

Acceptance of Foreign National Workers